The Blessing of the Qi Nv of Transmigration

Chapter 55 New Year's Gift
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Fuzhen came to Hu's house to pay New Year's greetings. In the past few days, he came here twice at night, and got a clear picture of the current members of the Hu family, and carefully prepared gifts for everyone. Wine is the main thing, the gold, silver and jade jewelry prepared by the female family members, Hu Kang is a pair of jade Go, the quiet one is jade chess, the twins are small decorative swords, and Xiao Yuer is a chessboard. Toy carriage.

In addition to Yang Feier's gift, Zhang Fuzhen also found another red jade coral flower hairpin for her.

On the eighth day of the second day of the Lunar New Year, Yang Feier went to Zhang's family to pay New Year's greetings alone with gifts.

Followed by Qingluan, they entered the Hengyi Courtyard all the way, entered the main room, saw the main room, and saw a 34-year-old white-faced middle-aged uncle and Mrs. Zhang sitting on both sides of the huanghuali wood Eight Immortals table in front of the long table. He has a short beard, just like Lu Xiaofeng with four eyebrows, but his demeanor is modest and very elegant, which is very similar to Zhang Fuzhen, so he naturally understands that he is Zhang Fuzhen's father, Zhang Boling, the youngest minister in the dynasty, I only heard that he was young, but unexpectedly he was so young.

After going forward to pray for blessings, Mrs. Zhang asked Nanny Zhang to lead Yang Feier to sit on the chair beside her, served tea and snacks, and asked Qingluan to go to the kitchen to take care of breakfast. This is also one of the customs here. No matter how late you arrive, you must prepare breakfast before lunch, and no matter how early you leave, you must also have dinner before leaving. It is only necessary for visitors to eat three meals to treat guests.

Zhang Fuzhen sat on the grand teacher's chair at the side, watched Yang Feier come in, saluted his parents and himself, and couldn't help smiling. This girl is just like in the past, with long brocade-like hair combed in double buns, and the hairpin is The red coral hairpin, the light orange-red gauze skirt dragged the floor, and the thin quilted skirt of the same color could be vaguely seen inside, and the rose red brocade narrow-sleeved small jacket, with snow-white rabbit fluff sewn on the corners, made it look more like a ball of powder. Dimple is more beautiful than flowers.

Mrs. Zhang asked Zhang Fuzhen and Nurse Zhang Qingluan to accompany Yang Feier to have breakfast in the dining room, and then returned to the main room. Mrs. Zhang smiled at Yang Feier and said: "The relationship between you and my employer has long been terminated. Today you come here, We will only treat you as a friend of Fu Zhen's generation, and Miss Hu, you must not be restrained any longer."

Yang Fei'er stood up with a smile and said "Don't dare".

But Mrs. Zhang is now more than eight months pregnant, but she has a delicate appearance, her belly is not big, and her figure is much thinner than before, but her complexion is ruddy and full of energy, her face is full of maternal brilliance, and her temperament is also good. Softer.She was wearing a drunk red rose blouse, and a deep purple pleated skirt scattered with water mist. It was tied up to the top of the chest according to the popular style at the moment. Three thousand blue silks were tied up in a loose cloud bun, and a gold inlaid jade was inserted obliquely. The steps are swaying, rich and lazy.

On the side Zhang Shangshu was wearing an autumn-colored brocade round-neck gown, a black gauze crown on his head, and his upright and handsome facial features, which made him more calm and solemn in his elegance.

Zhang Shangshu also met Yang Feier for the first time, and saw that she behaved well at a young age, her appearance and temperament were not as vulgar as ordinary peasant daughters, nor as vulgar as ordinary merchant daughters. Yang Feier said kindly: "You are Miss Hu? My wife often talks about you. When I saw you today, you are really dignified and elegant, different from others."

Yang Fei'er smiled slightly, and said, "That's Madam's absurd praise."

Zhang Shangshu said: "I heard that the method of transplanting rice seedlings, the symbiosis of fish and rice is the first one you created, and you even created a machine for transplanting rice seedlings. Your talent is really amazing!"

Yang Feier said: "It's really a coincidence, and if it wasn't for the help of my wife, it would never have happened."

Zhang Shangshu said with a smile: "It is only because of the beautiful scenery of Anhuai Prefecture that this talent can be produced. I hope that the little lady can enlighten more wisdom in the future and bring more benefits to the country and the people."

I also specifically asked a few more words about how the family members were waiting, and praised a few words, then left the inner house and went to the front to meet guests. Zhang Boling returned to Anzhun Mansion for the first time in several years. There were too many old friends and classmates who were looking for the meeting, and I was exhausted. to deal with.

As soon as Zhang Shangshu left here, Hengyi Academy became lively. In the past few months, Yang Feier and everyone around Mrs. Zhang have not had any contact with each other. They only met Zhang Nanny once on the day of moving, so everyone gathered together. The meeting was very cordial, they greeted each other, inquired about the current situation, chattered and laughed non-stop, and left Zhang Fuzhen aside, only to watch.

Qingluan asked all the maids to move all the gifts brought by Yang Feier to the main room. Immediately, the table of the Eight Immortals was full of gifts wrapped in colored papers and tied with various ribbons. Nanny Zhang laughed and said, "Miss Hu's The gift package is also ingenious, it looks festive and high-end."

Yang Feier opened the presents one by one in front of everyone, and the new year gift he brought to Mrs. Zhang was a wine-red Hermes platinum bag. In order to repay Mrs. Zhang's gift, Yang Feier also spent a lot of money this time.The best crocodile skin is selected, and the best cobbler shop in the city is invited to shape it along the edge. All metal parts are made of pure gold, which feels smooth to the touch, exquisite and high-end. I have never seen such a thing before, but with a woman's intuition, I saw its function at first glance, and said happily: "This bag is good, beautiful and practical." Holding it in my hand and looking at it repeatedly, I can't put it down.

He opened another beautifully packaged paper box, and took out another bag. Yang Feier said, "This bag is for Mr. Zhang." Everyone looked closely, but they saw that it was a bag with the same texture and style and dark pattern. The dark brown bag, with pure gold metal fasteners, has a simple and tough style. It looks like a pair with Mrs. Zhang's bag.

Mrs. Zhang put down her platinum bag, and took the men's bag that Qingluan handed her. After careful inspection, she was very satisfied, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Miss Hu, you have a heart."

Seeing this, Zhang Fuzhen couldn't help but look forward to his own gift. I don't know what this girl will prepare for him because of his whimsical ideas.
I saw Yang Feier unhurriedly opened another cardboard box, took out a cylindrical thing with one end small and the other big, and handed it to Zhang Fuzhen, saying: "This thing is called a telescope, and it can see things far away. place, I made it randomly, I don’t know if you like it?” and demonstrated how to use it to Zhang Fuzhen.

The production principle of the telescope is very simple, just put a convex lens and a concave mirror in a cylinder, but there is no glass in this era, so the choice of raw materials is relatively expensive, the convex lens is a complete piece of transparent crystal, slow Slowly polished, the concave mirror is made by polishing another piece of transparent crystal into a concave shape, using mercury to attach tin foil on the back, the cylinder is made of brass, and the inside and outside are lined with black leather, which is very advanced and unique .

Zhang Fuzhen took it curiously, imitating Yang Feier's demonstration just now, sticking the small end to one of his eyes, squinting the other eye, and looking at the courtyard door, it doesn't matter if you just look, Zhang Fuzhen was so startled that he dodged back, the courtyard door that was supposed to be five feet away suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, as if his face was pressed against it for a closer look, and he quickly reached out to touch it, but it was just a blur in the air. I took it away, took down the binoculars and looked again, the courtyard gate was still five feet away, and it was still in good condition. I tried it several times, and then took it to shine on trees and people's faces, and it was blurry. Immediately, he was ecstatic and playful, and went straight out of Hengyi Courtyard with a telescope, and went out to try out various scenery.

Everyone didn't understand it when they saw it, but they were happy for him to see that he liked him so much.

The one given to Nanny Zhang was a sky blue cashmere shawl embroidered with golden cloud patterns, and the one given to Qing Luan was a concubine red cashmere shawl embroidered with white dandelion flower balls. These two patterns were specially made by Yang Feier. It is drawn on paper, it is very cartoony, I asked the embroiderer to embroider it, I believe there is no second one in this world.Yang Feier smiled and said: "Mother Zhang, Sister Qingluan, I know you don't need anything here with Madam, I just thought, you serve Madam on weekdays, and you often get up at night, wearing this, at least you can protect your shoulders, It’s easier to put on and take off than clothes.”

The two accepted the thank you, Zhang Nanny said: "It's still Miss Hu who is considerate and makes money. I don't know who will marry you in the future. That is his great blessing!"

Hearing this in Yang Feier's ears, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty in front of Mrs. Zhang. Although he couldn't bear to refuse Zhang Fuzhen's courtship, he knew that there was a big gap between the two families. I couldn't help but feel ashamed in my heart, and for a while, my face was red.

Mrs. Zhang couldn't help being funny when she saw Yang Feier's expression of shame on her face that she couldn't hide, and she tried to keep her calm. Li, but you have to make people's words untenable, if I were Miss Hu, I would take back that shawl and not give it to you, and see if you still talk nonsense."

Nanny Zhang smiled and said, "There's nothing to be ashamed of. The eldest girl will always get married. In other words, our family is not as high as Miss Hu. Otherwise, I would have gone to a matchmaker to propose a marriage. If I save it, I will let someone else marry her." Think about it."

Seeing that Yang Feier was getting more and more ashamed, Qingluan hurriedly abducted Nanny Zhang, and said with a smile: "Nurse Zhang, stop talking, if you continue, I think Miss Hu will turn around and go home immediately .”

Zhang Nanny smiled and said: "Okay, okay, I don't say it, but Miss Hu has annoyed me, and I have no part in giving me things in the future."

Everyone just gave up.

They took out the gifts of Mrs. Ma and Mrs. Fan one after another. They were plain soft satin clothes for each of them, and there were even the girls who burned the fire, and each of them had a set of cotton quilted winter clothes.

Zhang Fuzhen came back after playing outside for a while, Mrs. Zhang said with a smile: "What kind of object is that, you like it so much, bring it to me and have a look." Zhang Fuzhen held the telescope in both hands and handed it over Mrs. Zhang gave her son a white look with a smile, took the binoculars and looked at the gate of the courtyard. She couldn't help being startled, and then looked at the small pavilion in the middle of the lake in the distance. It was already within reach, and said: "Isn't this the clairvoyance! No wonder Fu Zhen likes it like this." Turning around and wanting to hand it back to his son, he suddenly became narrow-minded and pretended that the telescope would fall if his hand slipped. Zhang Fu was startled Zhen rushed over to rescue her, but the telescope was still in her mother's hand, and she realized that her mother was deliberately teasing herself, laughing at herself for being too nervous, and said annoyedly: "Mother, other things are fun, but You can't make fun of this kind of thing anymore." He took the binoculars with both hands, put them back in the cardboard box and wrapped them up, saying that his mother was just like a child being taught, and everyone in the room laughed.

Mrs. Zhang usually wants to take a walk outside at this time, so she sent Fu Zhen back to read a book for a while, and a group of female relatives accompanied Mrs. Zhang for a walk in Zhang's house for a while, and did not return until dinner time. After lunch, Mrs. Zhang He felt a little sleepy, and asked Zhang Fuzhen to accompany the visitor, while he prepared to take an afternoon nap.

In the morning, Yang Feier was guilty of being told by Nanny Zhang, and at this time he was unwilling to stay with Zhang Fuzhen, so he said goodbye to Mrs. Zhang, saying that the shop was only open for two days, and he had to go back to the shop Helped, had another meal in a hurry, then resigned and went back.

(End of this chapter)